Volta Climbing Facility

Customer Journey with the Volta Climbing Facility in Trenton, Maine

A modern industrial building with dark gray metal siding and a wooden canopy entrance. Large horizontal windows run along the upper section. The surrounding area is grassy with some construction equipment visible.

“That’s like all I’ve been thinking about for years, Volta co-owner Jesse Cameron said. It’s like how the second you like, walk through the doors, what the experience is.”

Construction site with steel beams and equipment covered by blue tarps. Piles of dirt in the foreground and some trees and houses in the background. Overcast sky.

The latest trend in the commercial construction industry is designing highly customized structures with steel trusses and utilizing low maintenance materials such as metal roofing and metal siding.

Foundation Creation

A large, gray metal warehouse, Ref#020732, with a pitched roof is set on a grassy field. The hybrid building features a small door and two windows on its side, while the front has multiple tall sliding doors. A cloudy sky looms in the background.

A construction site with a large dirt mound, concrete slabs, and rebar protruding. A yellow traffic cone is visible in the foreground, under a clear blue sky. Sparse trees can be seen in the background.

Multiple layers of concrete were poured in different areas for this large multi-dimensional building foundation and is a unique and complex work of art.

Construction site with workers and a concrete pump truck pouring concrete over a prepared area with rebar. The sky is overcast, and various construction vehicles and materials are visible in the background.

Steel Trusses & Columns

Utilizing steel trusses and steel columns as your primary framework provides the strongest structure available, far beyond that of ‘stick built’ construction and it can withstand tremendous weather conditions.

Construction site with three cherry pickers working on a large building framework. Workers are visible, and there is construction equipment on the ground. The area is surrounded by trees and a clear sky.

Building Materials

Volta incorporated a mezzanine into the interior of their high walls. At a glance, this framework appears to be of wood construction, but underneath the secondary wood framing are the solid steel columns and solid steel trusses that create unmatched strength within the structure. Builders have the option to utilize metal or wood to finish out the secondary members. Many builders will also incorporate brick and stone into the exterior façade of the building for a more finished look.

The Outer Shell

Construction site featuring a large, dark gray corrugated metal building with a sloped roof. Workers on an orange lift are inspecting the structure. The ground is uneven with dirt piles and boards. Bright blue sky in the background.

Volta chose charcoal metal roofing and 29 gauge siding with a lifetime warranty plus custom windows and a single slope entrance to complete the outside look of their maintenance-free building that will provide a long lasting, outer shell for decades to come.

The Inner Shell

Interior of a large warehouse under construction, featuring a high ceiling with exposed metal trusses and beams. A partially built mezzanine level is visible, along with construction equipment and scaffolding.

Spray foam throughout the building interior was installed before the climbing gym was constructed by Entre-Prises USA and built to create a unique interior wall design with high precision, specifically for sport climbing and bouldering.

Two construction workers stand on a lift, working on a large metal scaffolding structure inside a tall, industrial-looking building. The walls are insulated, and the scaffolding reaches toward the ceiling.

Worldwide Steel Buildings was able to design the building system to not only carry the weight of the structure itself, but additionally meet the high snow load requirements in Maine, and also accommodate the additional weight of the climbing wall system the trusses needed to support.

Indoor Climbing Gym

A construction worker in a red shirt assembles a large metal and panel structure in a spacious indoor setting. Wooden boards and tools are scattered on the floor, while some material is stacked neatly in the background.

This one-of-a-kind interior modular wall installation creates 3,500 SF of walls for bouldering and 4,500 SF for rope climbing with 26 rope stations and 3D wall designs.

A climber scaling an indoor climbing wall with colorful handholds and footholds. The wall features various routes in different colors, including black, white, green, blue, and yellow. Only the climber's legs and harness are visible.

Open Climbing Season

“This time last year we didn’t even have a foundation, so it is pretty amazing to have a fully functional and finished business in a 10,000 sq ft building!”
~Ann Grinnell, Co-Founder

Our building design experts are available to answer any questions you may have about your garage shop project. Call us at # 800-825-0316 or visit us online at WorldwideSteelBuildings.com for more information.